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The project will explore how and why the Ottoman Empire evolved from a fourteenth-century polity where “confessional ambiguity” between Sunnism and Shiism prevailed, into an Islamic state concerned with defining and enforcing a “Sunni orthodoxy” by the early sixteenth century.

Gina is currently in the process of completing her PhD in the Classics Department at Princeton University, where she has been working on a dissertation on the translation of Greek in Cicero's philosophical works. A member of Princeton's Classical Philosophy Program, but with a background in classical literature and history, she is interested in how Greek philosophy enters the Roman world, and the philosophical and political implications of translating Greek thought into the Latin language.

CEMS is proud to announce that it is receiving applications for a 2 Year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Classical Studies with a focus on Ancient Political Thought!

For more information please visit: 

https://hro.ceu.hu/vacancies/2-year-postdoctoral-research-and-teaching-fellowship

The concluding workshop of the “The Caucasus in Context, 300–1600” HESP-funded project took place at CEU, in Budapest, on 28–30 November 2014.